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can hold its convention in connection with the International 

 fisheries Congress on the same date and in the same miH'tinsr 

 without losing its identity. 



President : Have the time and place of holding the N^ational 

 ^Fisheries Congress been fixed ? 



Mr. Titcomb : I understand not. 



Dr, Bean : I believe not. 



Mr. Titcomb : Tlien how can we determine the date of our 

 meeting. 



Dr. Bean: The exposition has furnished one of its finest 

 buildings, the new library building of the University, which is 

 divided up into session rooms, capable of holding all the con- 

 gresses that may be there in any one day, and there is no reason 

 on earth why the Fisheries Society should be lost — in fact, it 

 could not be lost — it could not lose itself if it tried. Imagine 

 the Fisheries Society lost. We have heard of a lost salmon or d 

 lost carp, but never of a lost fisheries society, and I hope we 

 . never Avill. ( x\pplause ) . 



Mr. Atkins : Allow me to say that it seems to me decidedly 

 better that we should not undertake at this meeting to determine, 

 when or where we shall hold our next meeting. I think the prop- 

 osition of the committee to leave that to be determined by the 

 officers later, is a very wise one, and that we had better not un- 

 dertake here to fix the matter, because I at least on my part do 

 not feel sufficiently infonned in relation to it as to what the facil- 

 ities will be at St. TiOuis and other places. 



Dr. Beau : T understand tlmt the incoming president has a 

 choice. 



i\Ir. Clark: Xo, 1 want to correct that, not tbai I care to 

 have this left to the eonmiittee, but I wish to correct the doctor 

 right here. I have no choice, and so stated last evening before 

 the committee, and I think the doctor will bear me out, that per- 

 sonally I have no choice, I was simply doing that whicli I 

 thought was my duty as a courtesy to a city that is entx^rtaining 

 many conventions, the same as my own city of Detroit. The 

 secretary of the convention association of Buffalo, composed of 

 the city officials of Buffalo and many others (very fine gentle- 

 men ) . eoiTesponded with me and urged that I take the matter 

 up. 1 liad a great deal of eorres]iondence witli tliein and tried 



